You have to know the past to understand the present.

  • -- Carl Sagan 卡尔·萨根

只有了解过去,才能了解现在。

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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.Most people do not listen with the intent to understand: they listen with the intent to reply. They’re filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s lives.

先寻求理解,再寻求被理解。大多数人倾听的目的不是为了理解,而是为了回应。他们通过自己的范例来过滤一切,把自己的自传读给别人听。

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do -- not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

在不同信仰相遇的背景下,我们需要把我们实际的信仰如何塑造我们所做的事情浮出水面——而不是简单地同意善良比残忍更好。